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THE SOUL OF EVE 




Mrs. Helen Aldkich DeKroyft 
at Eujhlv I (lur 



THE SOUL OF EVE 



BY 



MRS. HELEN ALDRICH De KROYFT 

AUTHOR OF "MORTARA," "THE FORESHADOWED WAT," 
"A PLACE IN THT MEMORY," ETC. 



NEW YORK 

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 

1904 






LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 
AUG 6 1904 

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COPY B 



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Copyright, 1903, bt 
Mrs. HELEN ALDRICH De KEOYFT 



©etiication 

Part One to this eke of a book was 
originally very much longer than now; 
and when in the winter of '71 I gave it 
at Steinway as a recitation or lecture, 
up out of the audience came a lovely 
Miss Dana who, after placing a kiss on 
my lips, said : "I have been twelve 
years Paris correspondent for my broth- 
er's paper ; but in all that time I have 
never seen or heard anything one-half 
as beautiful as your creation of Eve in 
Paradise; and I could not go away 
without coming to thank you for it. " 

Hand plaudits had not been wanting, 
but those few words of praise, in the 
voice of a cultured stranger, were things 
for my heart to break smiles upon. 
And after these many days I make re- 
turn as best 1 may by dedicating " The 
Soul of Eve " to the lovely 

^i^0 2Dana 

who, passing, paused to enrich my life 
with a moment of her own — a little 
legacy for memory to keep. 



THE SOUL OF EVE 



PART I 



When we remember how really grand 
and beautiful a being man is, it does 
seem a little like effecting a sort of 
flank movement upon his greatness 
even to so much as remind him that 
science and revelation both have ac- 
corded to his father Adam an outside, 
open land, common earth origin. Moses 
says : " Formed of the dust of the 
ground." However significant or how- 
ever comprehensive the word "dust" 
may have been in the original of that 
Cyclopean statement, from the time of 
Ezra, the scribe, down to the nine- 
teenth century, it was understood to 
mean simply the minute particles of 
matter that we tread upon. Then sci- 
ence, like a rebuking angel, came to 



8 THE SOUL OF EVE 

hold over that httle word " dust " the 
resolving torch of her wisdom, when it 
was straightway found to cover in its 
meaning all the indivisible, impercept- 
ible properties, quantities, qualities, in- 
stincts, faculties, propensities, crafts, 
cunnings, intelligences, passions, and 
aspirations, harvested through the ages 
to the growing needs of forming or 
developing man from the face of the 
entire globe. 

Although " learned in all the wisdom 
of the Egyptians," it was not without 
some touches of inspiration that Moses 
came to understand the sublime cor- 
relation of spirit forces by which the 
myriad embryo mentalities of the ani- 
mal world were drawn to, and by dint 
of development sublimated into tliat 
mightiest, subtlest, and most ponderous 
piece of enginery this side of Heaven, 
the mind or brain of man ; so small as to 
be covered with a palm, and yet so com- 
plex in its machinery, so tremendous 



THE SOUL OF EVE 



in its force, so incomprehensible in its 
workings, and so eternal in its results, 
that only God himself should be forever 
adequate to its control. 

The mightiest of the world's myste- 
ries, and yet, such even, according to 
the highest wisdom of the age, was Nat- 
ure's own wondrous endowment of 
him who six thousand years ago stood 
forth upon the unfinished scenes of the 
earth as the grand epitome or lofty 
embodiment of all that law-governed 
material could produce, namely : an 
upright human intelligence, possessed 
of body and of mind, possessed of pas- 
sion and of intellect, but as void of all 
the heart or soul-endowing qualities of 
love as were the millions of contem- 
poraries around him; among whom 
must have been the sons of " Nod," to 
whose land the outcast Cain fled, and 
whose daughters he of the branded 
brow subsequently honored with mar- 
riage ; the peoples for whom Cain built 



10 THE SOUL OF EVE 

a city and named it to his son ; the peo- 
ples for whom Abel kept his herds and 
tended his flocks; the peoples named 
in The Pre- Adamite : "sons of Ish — 
(men of low degree)." 

As soulless as were all these, we say ; 
when as by a backward turn of the hor- 
oscope divine, it was given the inspired 
Moses to behold the first earth-man 
who had climbed so far up the spiral 
staircase of being as to reach the, so to 
speak, affinitizing fitness for that union 
of soul with mind for which the tran- 
scribers of INloses hundreds of years 
later could find no better expression 
than " a breath " of the Supreme 
" breathed into the nostrils of man." 

Too divine to contact matter, a soul 
identity from out the realm of souls 
could only blend with the mental spirit 
of mortal, which harmonious fusion of 
being was to the natural man, or to the 
frosted cells of his natural being, pre- 
cisely what the awakening spring-time is 



THE SOUL OF EVE U 

to the world: a serene unlocking of all 
his senses to the light and heat of 
love; whereby his cold methodic reason 
warmed to the wisdom of understandmg, 
his bare belief rose to far-seeing faith 
his dull expectancy put on white-wmged 
hope, while all the pulses and passions 
of his natural, unawakened, unenUv- 
ened, unregenerate heart purpled to the 
graces and qualities of goodness— good- 
ness that, consecrating his thoughts, 
warming in his words, shining in his 
deeds, and melting into beautiful be- 
nignities in his smile, changed him liter- 
ally from a subtle mental spirit to a 
livin^^ or acting soul, drawing life and 
light from the Divine, and treading the 
world amenable alike to the Celestial 
as to the Terrestrial, with only a step 
between. L.ofC. 



PART II 

And God took the man and put him into the garden of 
Eden, garden of the Lord, or Paradise of God, to dress it 
and to keep it. 

But how God took the man or how 
he jjuf him to within the boundary of 
the iuiseen,\\e are not told ; and doubt- 
less Adam himself never could say ex- 
actly how or why it was that he went 
treading the shining avenues that opened 
up before him, even to the gates of 
Paradise ; himself gravitating, as it 
were, from the material to the imma- 
terial, from the mortal to the immortal, 
as in abeyance to the heaven-tending 
laws of soul gravitation. 

But however taken, or however borne 
across those shining portals, it were 
none the less by edict divine, albeit 
thither led simply by the force of that 
charmed attraction which forever draws 
one twin soul to its other dearer self, 



14 THE SOUL OF EVE 

though separated wide as heaven, and 
liigh as the stars that shine above it. 
High privilege though, that of primal 
innocence, thus to part the veils tliat 
shut away the beautiful birthland of 
the soul, and without dread or pain of 
death go to breathe the expansive airs 
and revel amid the white scenes and 
ecstatic joys of spirit being, the while 
moving amid seraphic throngs, fanned 
by breezes wafted from afar, balmy with 
perfumes and exhilarant with love. 

But although a paradisiacal or spirit 
world, Eden was to Adam still a real 
world with grounds beneath his feet, full 
enough suggestive of tilling. Fields, 
too, real as erst his eyes had looked on, 
were everywhere rising to his view, clad 
in verdure perennial and bordered by 
majestic rivers, gemmed with bubbling 
fountains and knotted over with bowers 
of celestial amaranth, whence sweet ely- 
siums invited him forth, intersected by 
flowery lanes, ambrosia bordered, and 



THE SOUL OF EVE 15 

overhung with vines, purple chistered, 
but all wayward enough to profit by his 
dresmig. Trees, too, everywhere tow- 
ered above and around him, heavily 
pendant with luscious fruits ; and when 
the sun had risen high enough above 
the heaven-lighted hill-tops to awaken 
appetite, albeit in Eden, Adam, as fate 
would have it, bent his steps toward 
the centremost tree of the garden ; 
when lo ! one met him there with face 
like unto an flaming fire, bold of speech 
and mighty, crying : 

Know, O ! Adam, " In the day thou 
eatest thereof thou wilt surely die," dis- 
appear or go hence. Then, as by some 
inner sense, new lighted, Adam saw and 
understood that although an inhabitant 
of the blissful Eden, and the while re- 
strained by all its holy influences, lie 
was nevertheless of the earth earthy, 
and yet far too near the animal plane 
to eat of a tree from whose subtle juices 
archangels even had quaffed and grown 



16 THE SOUL OF EVE 

dazed with dreams of ambitious rule. 
Furthermore, Adam saw and under- 
stood that while the natural mental 
spirit in him had been clothed upon by 
all the heart or soul-endowing qualities 
of love, volition in him was still left 
untrammelled, as, less than that, he 
were less than man ; and therefore xv'ill 
in him would be forever the mighty 
umpire to his three-fold being, at whose 
high behest he could slay his body, 
strangle or choke away remorse from 
his soul, silence its faintest whisper, and 
at will, impoverish his mind, or at will 
gormand it with that kind of knowledge 
that pufFeth up the senses to an irrev- 
erent, demoniac lust for greatness — 
greatness that dreameth of power de- 
fiant to God even ; and thus, dying to 
love, fall from love's Paradise. Then, 
satisfied and grateful to have escaped 
so dire a calamity, Adam went other- 
where and gathered for his noonday 
repast. 



THE SOUL OF EVE 17 

But sitting by the door of his celes- 
tial bower, alone and kingly, Adam 
could not stay the soul in him from 
taking on reflections not altogether con- 
ducive to happiness : 

" Even the birds of the air have their 
mates " — quoth he to himself — " and all 
the animals when I named them, I did 
observe me, came marching past in 
twain. And thus voice answereth to 
voice, and all nature hath harmony with 
itself, while this soul in me crieth and 
there is none to answer. I stretch out 
mine arms, and lo ! from out the two 
w^orlds I have lived in I may fold noth- 
ing to my breast, all, all mine own. 
Even these spirits and angels, as they 
come and go, bent on errands swift 
twixt eartli and heaven, do greet me 
with shows of fraternity, and then flee 
mine embrace like the shadows of air. 
They have not flesh and bones as I 
have, and would to God I were some- 
thing less or something more ! " 



PART III 

Not good that man should he alone. 

If the words : " In the image and after 
the hkeness of God," admit of one con- 
struction more palpable to finite compre- 
hension than another, it is that souls 
are twained or twinned born "in the 
image and after the likeness of God ;" 
and since Adam became only a soul or 
one soul, it follows that the soul of 
Eve was an inhabitant of the Paradise 
of Eden at the time of Adam's entrance 
into it. Indeed, the very name assigned 
to her, Eve, life, spirit or soul, is of 
itself enough to establish the fact of her 
prior existence. 

Then, considering the high spiritual 
state to which Adam had been lifted, 
and knowing, moreover, as we do, that 
in the soul life thought nears the object 



20 THE SOUL OF EVE 

of thought, and they are ever nearest 
us or most with us of whom we most 
think, nothing becomes more rational 
than to suppose that often, often, bend- 
ing over the mossy rims to the nectar 
fountains everywhere bubbhng around 
him, Adam saw, anon, reflected in the 
placid waters before him, the image of a 
face beside his, as of one long since loved 
and lost, so famihar each lineament and 
so welcome seemed to him the sweet 
presence withal. But, when lifting his 
eager, love-lighted eyes for the original, 
the physical in him grown dominant 
again, naturaUy the vision seemed to 
him flown and he left alone as before ; 
when, being only a man after all, me- 
thinks I hear him exclaiming, half under 
his breath: 

" Ha ! an angel was with me here but 
now, like unto mine own soul's otJier 
dearer self; but alas ! mine o'erlieated 
gaze hath robbed me of what mine eyes 
would give the world to look on again ! " 



THE SOUL OF EVE 21 

And then straightway down the flow- 
ery aisles rushed he, making quick 
survey of each angel form as she passed, 
something as one stems an hurrying 
crowd, eager of coming soon upon one 
face familiar whereon to break the smiles 
of recognition ; until finding search 
fruitless and calmer grown, Adam, 
maylike, retraced his steps slowly to 
the fountain, or, reluctant, turned him 
aside wending his way thoughtfully to 
his tasks again. 

And how long Adam may have thus 
sojourned in the Garden or Paradise of 
Eden, vexed with like apparitions of the 
longed-for mate to his soul ; sleeping 
and dreaming of her, and awaking but 
to dream of her still, meeting her smile 
now in the mirroring waters, as if for- 
ever twained to his side, even as com- 
panioned to him ever in the dial of 
his thoughts ; or, in still more fortuitous 
mood, brightening for a moment full to 
his view and then melting shadowily 



22 THE SOUL OF EVE 

afar, the same angelic presence seeming 
to him thus ever either friglitened away 
by his fierceness, or purposely eluding 
his grasp — how long, we say, Adam 
may liave thus sojourned in the Para- 
dise of Eden brightening and refining 
to the will and for the purposes of God, 
no one can know; for 

"A day with God is as an thousand 
years, and an thousand years as one 
day." Long enough thougli, we know, 
for the entire animal world to be 
brought from the outer plains of Eden 
and made to pass there slowly in his 
spiritualized review and be named, the 
while, by names fitting from his lips. 
Long enough, too, for keeping and dress- 
ing the garden with its shining river 
meandering scores of leagues away. 
Long enough, too, for the great Heart 
of Heaven to be finally moved with 
pity for his sighs of loneliness ; when 
lifting up His voice, (lod proclaimed, 
not only to the mighty who stood 



THE SOUL OF EVE 23 

in His presence, but sent it echoing 
down through all the Hstening ages : 

Behold : " It is not good that man 
should be alone.'" 

Then was there silence in the 
heavens and silence on the earth, while 
the shades of night crept softly upon 
the weary world, and over the reposing 
form of earth's forthcoming lord passed 
the all-magnetizing hand of God ; mov- 
ing him to a sleep so deep and so pro- 
found, that his side, even, might be 
sundered, and the place healed again 
ere he should awaken. 



PART IV 

The Soul of Eve. 

Will, with God, is mandate uttered ; 
and now all creation felt the signs of 
its approaching completion. From the 
highest heaven to the remotest limit of 
space the very airs throbbed with its 
mighty meaning ; and as at the lofty 
endowment of man everything in earth 
and air was drawn upon for its highest 
instinct of embryo mentality, so now 
all the elementary existences of the 
Edenic or Paradisiacal world felt them- 
selves drawn upon for the more heav- 
enly endowment of woman, last crown- 
ing work of the great Creator, the rich 
casket of whose being had been pur- 
posely set in the Paradise of Eden that 
all the occult graces of Paradisiacal ex- 
istence might flow thereto ; and thus, 
through her, not only put her offspring 



26 THE SOUL OF EVE 

forev^er linked hands with the angels, 
but pave the way for the coming of 
Him who should, ere long, open up to 
the world life and immortality beyond 
the grave. 

AVliat is to be, angels, like mortals, 
have a tendency to ; and so now, from 
up out all the seraphic throng, as if 
seeking or waiting on her destiny, moved 
the angel soul of Eve, all beautiful and 
non-incarnate, and stood in the pres- 
ence of her Creator, God, close wrapped 
in the white of spirit radiance that an- 
swereth at will to wings, and at will to 
mantles of light ; while native in her 
pure mind, reason sat enthroned, mem- 
ory unrolled her thought-kaleiding pan- 
oramas, ambition lighted her quench- 
less fires, and from the heaven-piercing 
pinnacles of thought, imagination 
plumed her love-lighted wings. Be- 
sides, as the emotions of one mind may 
ever, at will, be infused into the mind of 
another, or as the beautiful departing 



THE SOUL OF EVE 27 

always bear away from us, as a part 
of tliemselves, whatsoever of good they 
have won from our love, so now the 
angel soul of Eve, swift gravitating 
to the state we name mortal, drew 
to herself, or to the charmed repos- 
itory of her sentient being, not only 
all that was to her inherent of Para- 
dise, but also all that was kindred in 
heaven. 

And first to lead the long celestial 
train, the sum of whose endowing graces 
were to make up the sum of woman's 
being — first of all came Tenderness and 
as primal to her nature, laid down the 
rich opals of Feeling that should for- 
ever blush in the soul of woman as 
though all her thoughts had taken on 
the tints of the roses at morn. Then 
next came sweet Forbearance, and cast 
thereto the grace of her spirit that suf- 
fereth long and is kind. 

Then next. Patience that outwatch- 
eth the stars; and Hope that hopeth 



28 THE SOUL OF EVE 

still when the day is over and all is lost. 
Then the angel most beautiful in heav- 
en, Compassion, drawing near and stoop- 
ing as if to heal, added that Christliest 
of all the womanly graces, Pity, w^hich 
hath in't the trick of heart that moveth 
to tears ere sorrow is ; while, close 
upon her steps followed one, without 
the hght of whose presence heaven it- 
self were dark, the angel of I^ove — Love 
that believeth the impossible, braveth 
all things, and is mighty to endure; 
Love that teacheth to forgive, helps to 
forget and whitens the memory of all 
things; Love that, lacking all, hath 
yet itself wherewith to bless; and, 
smiling laid down for the chiefest 
adornment of woman that pearl of 
greatest price, Love-unselfish, that 
maketh beautiful whatsoe'er it shines 
on. 

Then approached one more majestic 
than the rest, and slower of step and 
haughtier of mien, and proudly made 



THE SOUL OF EVE 29 

offering of Endurance, that mightiest 
of the virtues; while, close upon her 
train, as nearest of kin, followed the 
sorrowing - most angel of the soul, 
Wounded-love,and quick eclipsed every 
other gift with that jewel which most 
likeneth to heaven, Forgiveness, all 
pearly with tears that, trembling on the 
sliffhted cheek of woman, should seem 
ever waiting but the look of penitence 
to melt them into smiles. 

Then, last of all, came Beauty, of 
gentle mien and softly tread ; and with 
hand no whit grudging, quick spread 
over all the charms of her queenly 
grace, adding thereto sweet amenities 
of voice that the angels, even, might 
pause a little on their harps to listen 
for ; the while, braiding from the magic 
of her smile a sceptre that should win 
for woman kingdoms, lift her to 
thrones and place crowns at her feet. 
Then, parting her ruby lips, whose 
honeyed accents " the sons of God," 



30 THE SOUL OF EVE 

even, should one day come down to 
wait on, Beauty whispered to the yet 
non-incarnate soul of woman : 

" My tears give I unto thee also, that 
though all tlie world should forsake, 
and heaven itself seem too far away to 
pity or to save, Beauty's tears shall fail 
thee not ; but, pearling down thy silk- 
en lashes, melt away the potency of 
kings, raise sieges, disperse belligerent 
hosts, level walls and unbar to thee 
prison doors that well-nigh shut away 
the impossible ! " 

Thus, at the ornate endowment of 
woman's prescient being, in lieu of 
myriad animal instinct, gates to fields 
felicitous were unbarred ; and down 
through all the pulsing avenues of 
thought and feeling flowed the sweet 
protoplasts of spirit-being that, borne 
by angel hands, shone like unto bridal 
gifts ordained to the rich dower of her 
whom, naming, they named Love-angel 
of the Garden, twinned soul to the soul 



THE SOUL OF EVE 31 

in Adam, by whose starry magnetism 
alone he had been drawn up out of the 
world into the Paradise of Eden, thus 
symbolizing forever woman's first mis- 
sion to man : his elevation through her 
love. 

Thus, we say, upon the snowy tablets 
of woman's prescient being, Paradisiacal 
protoplasts were cast ; until it would 
seem that heaven itself had been well- 
nigh robbed poor for the richer endow- 
ment of her, in the coronated bliss of 
whose nature, but " a little lower than 
the angels," was thus fashioned a temple 
possible for the Divine Himself to dwell 
in, as in her flesh the very God of gods 
should one day be made manifest, and 
close wrapped in the chaste endurance 
of its might, the Prince of Peace go 
forth to chain His demoniac foes, con- 
quer death and ransom the world. 
Then, whitening and immortalizing it 
with His own exceeding glory, go to 
reign in it in heaven, and at last come 



32 THE SOUL OF EVE 

to reign in it on earth, with every knee 
bent to His worship, every tongue con- 
fessing His goodness, and every heart 
attuned to His praise. 



PART V 

Tliough angel still. 

Destiny keeps no dial, but is a time 
unto herself, and now from the great 
watch-tower of fate was echoed through 
all the vaults of space the hour for the 
earth-crowning, creation-finishing work 
of God ; when straightway the windows 
to heaven were opened, and over all its 
glittering battlements leant myriad 
hosts, with all eyes as the eye of one 
face intent upon Him whom, aforetime, 
they saw bend His divine head to 
breathe into the nostrils of man " the 
breath of life." And just so now, they 
saw Him stooping again, but this time 
to lift the physical up to its kindred 
spiritual ; and softly, tenderly, from the 
side of sleeping Adam drew He one 
snowy rib, a little from the all that was 
His own ; and while yet warm and 
quivering witli sensation and all aglow 



34 THE SOUL OF EVE 

with affinitizing, magnetic life, He has- 
tened and fast belted down with it the 
wings to the soul of Eve ; while quick 
over all her fair proportions spread 
from it a thin veil of mortality, so thin 
indeed, that the Divine should still for- 
ever shine from out her, love's one bea- 
con light in the world, and forever and 
forever " the glory of man ! " 

Thus the beautiful, smooth, white- 
faced, Edenic, Adamite, Caucasian, 
soul-endowed woman first came into 
being; when, mantled in the golden 
radiance of her own silken tresses, that 
trailing, seemed to kiss the dews from 
the leaves and the flowers, leaning upon 
tlie unseen Arm of her Creator and es- 
corted by bands of angels, she moved 
softly down the flowery aisles of Eden, 
while the lilies, pale nuns of the flowers, 
drooped their heads as she passed, nev^er 
to lift them again in the presence of so 
much loveliness ; the queens of the 
roses blushed scarlet, and the violets 



THE SOUL OF EVE 35 

purpled beneath the pressure of her 
tender feet ; and lo ! doth Adam sleep ? 
What! sleep, when seraphic choirs wait 
to touch chords yet unheard in heaven, 
and Gabriel himself is moved to turn 
his face, albeit for one brief glance, half 
to admire and half to envy ? Sleep ! 
when the great God of gods, even, is 
stayed from entering Him upon the 
eternal Sabbath of His rest, and over 
all the thought wires of the Universe is 
flashing the news of creation finished ? 
Sleep ! when the beautiful impersona- 
tion of all that his lonely heart had 
longed for, ached for, and wept for, but 
never dared to hope for, draweth so near 
as to mingle her shadow with the visions 
of his dreams ! 

Ah ! no. AA^ere his heart the lost 
Pleiade, such presence had brought it 
back ; and look ! he hath arisen, and 
hasteneth to make him obeisance as be- 
cometh him alway. Words, though, 
and sentences fit-framed for salutation 



36 THE SOUL OF EVE 

lie hatli not. Strange fatality, that 
when the heart feels most it should 
ever speak so httle! His feet, too, 
seemed riveted to the spot ; and then, 
anon, he advanced, and, anon, drew 
back, whispering to himself : 

" Maylike wings do still lurk beneath 
those fair shoulders, and I be mocked 
with a vision again as erst I was." 

Then suspense grew terrible, past en- 
durance; and risking all in one mad 
rush, Adam, for one brief second, 
clasped the lovely form before him in 
his arms. Then, half affrighted at his 
audacity, but more than satisfied, the 
first of husbands and the first of fathers 
stood apart; and spreading wide those 
great protecting arms of his, so mighty 
to shield, so tender to caress, and whose 
shelter a weary angel, even, might 
covet, the while with the new great 
love burning in his heart and melting 
into rainbow smiles through his tears, 
Adam lifted up his voice and gave loud 



THE SOUL OF EVE 37 

utterance to that first strain of grati- 
tude that ever rose to the ear of God 
from human Ups : 

Lo ! " this is now bone of my bones, 
and flesh of my flesh ; " which was as if 
he had said to his hstener fair : 

Though angel still, yet mortal art 
thou noiv like unto myself! 

Such transformation wondrous and 
such miracle sublime needed none other 
heralding in Eden; and scarcely had 
these words fallen from the lips of the 
enraptured Adam, ere the tongues, as 
of an mighty concourse, took them up 
in glad hallelujahs, until it seemed that 
the very winds did repeat them, se- 
raphic choirs chanted them, orchestral 
bands hymned them, and on harps too 
golden for aught but seraphic touch 
cherubs wove them into swelling har- 
monies. Angels sang them as the glad 
omega and beautiful crowning to all 
God's works. The stars also sang to- 
gether, the sweet Pleiades lifting their 



38 THE SOUL OF EVE 

lofty soprano to the highest heaven; 
wliile Jupiter rolled in his mighty bass, 
and down through all the vaulted skies 
of space Arcturus thundered his trum- 
pet accompaniment to great creation's 
hymn of jubilant praise and thanksgiv- 
ing to great creation's God. 

Little, though, to Him, whose throne 
is set in the heavens, and whose do- 
minion is from everlasting to everlast- 
ing — little to Him were the trumpet- 
ings of stars, the chanting of spheres, 
or the jubilant chorus of angels com- 
pared to the joy He had in the twained 
pair who stood in His presence ; the 
one, mighty and majestic in His image, 
as the other lofty and beautiful in His 
likeness, the twain twained one in flesh 
as erst they had together twained hung 
upon the tree of life ; thence twinned 
born in soul, as now dual hearted and 
love-bound to all eternity, even as the 
image and the likeness of God are twain- 
ed one in Heaven. 



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" The Foreshadowed Way,". . " " " 1-00 

"The Story of Little Jakey," " " " l-O^ 

" Mortara," full gilt " " " ^.00 

(Money Order preferred-) 



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